Learning to Write Fiction from the Masters Paperback - 1996
by Barnaby Conrad
Employing extracts from the works of the "masters", Conrad, the director of the famed Santa Barbara Writer's Conference, shows aspiring writers how to handle the basic elements of fiction--beginnings, settings, character, suspense, dialogue, endings, and others. Invaluable for its technical guidance and immense readability, this is a masterful tool for literary success.
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Jane Austen, Leo Tolstoy, Ernest Hemingway, Willa Cather, Jack London, Dorothy Parker, John O'Hara, Elmore Leonard, and a host of other greats past and present have much to show you about how to begin and end a story, structure a plot, create memorable characters, write dialogue, depict settings and action, heighten romance, choose winning titles, and meet all the other challenges of the art of fiction. Barnaby Conrad, a bestselling author as well as one of America's premier creative writing teachers, has selected key examples from the best of the best to reveal the essential tools of storytelling and demonstrate their use. His book offers fresh inspiration and guidance for all writers of fiction. It is also a joy to read.
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- Title Learning to Write Fiction from the Masters
- Author Barnaby Conrad
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Later printing
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Plume Books, New York
- Date 1996-06-01
- Features Index
- ISBN 9780452276574 / 0452276578
- Weight 0.47 lbs (0.21 kg)
- Dimensions 8.01 x 5.32 x 0.86 in (20.35 x 13.51 x 2.18 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Fiction, Fiction - Technique
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95042575
- Dewey Decimal Code 808.3
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